Seneca King is alone in life, the pain of her past her only companion. The idyllic confines of the women's college Seneca attends prove more isolating than she imagined possible, and her scars, emotional and physical, deter everyone from getting close to her. Until she meets Dylan Walker. Dylan, a c[...]

This book traces the eventful life of Seneca, the Roman philosopher, dramatist, essayist and rhetorician of the first century CE, who came from Spain to Rome, spent his youth in Egypt, was exiled to Corsica under Claudius but recalled after eight years, and rose to dizzying heights of wealth, power [...]

On the Shortness of Life is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger in 49 AD, a Roman Stoic philosopher, to his father-in-law Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time, namely that men waste much of it in meaningless pursuits. According to the essay, nature [...]

At his sudden death in 1987, H kanson left a number of unpublished scholarly works. A former volume in this series (2014) printed four essays on the pseudo-Quintilianic Major Declamations; one more has appeared elsewhere. The present volume contains a commentary on Book One of the Controversiae by S[...]

The essence of this book can be found in a line written by the ancient Roman Stoic Philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca: "Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid". This sentence summarizes the features of the phenomenon that we call "collapse," which is typically sudden and often unexpected, l[...]

Seneca, Erzieher des römischen Kaisers Nero, als dessen Opfer er sich im Jahre 65 n.Chr. selbst den Tod geben mußte, hat seine stoische Lebensauffassung in zahlreichen Briefen und philosophischen Schriften niedergelegt, deren wichtigste in der vorliegenden Übersetzung zusammengefaßt sind.[...]

Was der römische Philosoph über Hektik und Gelassenheit, über den Umgang mit der Zeit und eine weise Lebensführung zu sagen hat ? Wie gemacht für unsere Zeit.[...]

Om romerriget og filosoffen, digteren og statsmanden Seneca (f. 4 f. Kr-65 e. Kr, der var lærer og rådgiver for Nero, set i lyset af humanismen[...]

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